If you want to disaplay a splash screen at the beginning of Phonegap based Android application you need to put splash screen image(splash.png) inside res\drawable-hdpi, res\drawable-mdpi, res\drawable-idpi which can be located inside your project directory.

The splash screen image size should be different for different size of Android devices.

For large screens size (hpdi) image size should be at least 640dp x 480dp